Jews in the Russian Army, 1827-1917: Drafted Into Modernity

by Iokhanan Petrovskii-Shtern and Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern

This is the first study of the military experience of some one to one-and-a-half million Jews who served in the Russian Army between 1827, the onset of personal conscription of Jews in Russia, and 1917, the demise of the tsarist regime. The conscription integrated Jews into the state transforming the repressed Jewish victims of the draft into modern imperial Russian Jews. The book contextualizes the reasons underlying the decision to draft Jews, the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521515734
• ISBN13: 9780521515733
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.3"